Accelerate API adoption

A first-class developer experience is key to attracting and retaining developers to your platform. Easily expose a developer portal for your APIs that provides documentation and test experiences and minimize the time to first successful API call.

"API Management allows us to securely publish APIs so our partners and customers can find health care services on desktop, mobile or even on a corporate intranet."

–Bradley Hoyt, Director of Innovation and Digital Platform

Ensure API readiness with the Ready! API plug-in

Before introducing customers to your API, make sure it’s high quality and production-ready. Using the API Management plugin for SmartBear Ready! API, import your API from your API Management portal, and quickly generate a complete suite of tests and virtual APIs based on your API definition.

Secure and protect your APIs

Protect your mission critical systems with authentication, rate limiting and quotas. Connect to backends in their native authentication protocol and unify at the front-end. Use caching to ease load under pressure.

"We were able to consolidate all of our existing APIs into a single set of endpoints and expose our business critical API, relying on Azure for security and rate limiting."

–Jørgen Hemmer-Havnsgaard, Director of Architecture

Convert analytics & reporting into results

Understand how developers are using APIs and act on those insights to deliver increased value. Identify the trends which are most impactful to your business. Visualize API performance, error rates and adoption in near real-time.

Increase API discoverability and usability

Most organizations now have thousands of APIs and cross-team collaboration is hampered by fragmented experiences, poor documentation and limited discoverability. Deploy Azure API Management to create a unified façade and API catalog to increase business agility.